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It was
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, that cemented Demme’s place as a top-notch director. The drama about a young female FBI agent pursuing a serial killer swept the Academy Awards, winning in all five major categories. After his Oscar win, Demme continued to produce an eclectic body of work. The courtroom drama
Philadelphia (1993)...

Oscars to

Demme for best director

Hopkins for best actor

role of

Foster

...adult roles. In
The Accused (1988) she gave a remarkable performance as Sarah Tobias, a rape victim who struggles with inequities in the justice system. In
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) she tracks a serial killer as FBI agent Clarice Starling. Both performances won her Academy Awards as best actress.

Hopkins

...the film role with which he is most identified, and for which he received an Academy Award, was that of the horrifyingly brilliant serial killer Hannibal (“the Cannibal”) Lecter in
The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He received subsequent Oscar nominations for his roles as a duty-bound butler in
Remains of the Day (1993), as the 37th U.S. president in
Nixon...